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Joslyn’s Kent Bellows Mentoring Program (KBMP) provides studio space and artistic mentorship to over 80 teens in the Omaha area. Three semesters per year, high school students in the after school program are paired with professional artists to gain technical skills, explore their creative vision, and make art. KBMP…

Six times during the school year, a group of teachers meet at Joslyn to study an artist and their artwork to create a lesson plan for Thursdays for Teachers (T4T). Who are these wonderful educators responsible for collaborating with Museum staff to create the curriculum? They are our Mentor…

Four years ago I met Julie Dierberger with University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Service Learning Academy (SLA) and Cathy Nelson with Blackburn Alternative High School. Little did I know that this partnership (and subsequent friendship) would lead to Joslyn Art Museum installing a life-size Truffula Tree in the Discovery…

Joslyn Art Museum serves as an educational resource for the entire greater metropolitan area, including Southwest Iowa. As such, this spring, we welcomed every second grade student from the Council Bluffs School District — nearly 700 children from eleven school buildings — for a docent-guided tour called Parts of…

Bringing the outside in doesn’t sound like a great idea when it’s February and you live in Nebraska. But that’s exactly what John McIntyre and Laura Vranes do as street art collectors. In a few short years the couple has filled their 1970s home, nestled in an unassuming Omaha…

Spring has sprung! Although this winter was pretty average by many accounts, it’s always refreshing to be able to say that it’s finally spring. Over the last month or so as I’ve anxiously awaited spring’s arrival, when the landscape will explode into a crescendo of green, I find myself…

Last September, twenty Karen students – most from camps along the Thai-Burma border and all now attending Benson High School and part of Omaha Public Schools’ ESL/Refugee and Migrant Education program – made Joslyn Art Museum their home. The students participated in a five-day quilt workshop during National…

It’s rare when most of Joslyn’s education staff calendars align, but when they do we make the most of it. This year we traveled to the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) to meet with their education staff and view their collections and exhibitions. Meet Joslyn’s Education Department Front row,…

What began as a storage room full of books and other items became a space more wonderful than any one person could have dreamed. After tedious planning, sorting, cleaning, more planning, building, bumps and hoops, this old storage room that occupied the east lower level of the Memorial Building…

Thoughts on this unique display, on view through 2014, by two of its coordinators. What do you get when you ask the staff of an art museum to submit artwork for a staff show? Inter-department collaboration and a lot of artistic talent, apparently. After Hours: Work by Joslyn…